Secure search Google met Firefox add-on

[Cees Binkhorst]

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Voor Firefox is er al een add-on
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/161898/

Gebruiksvoorwaarde is het selecteren van 'Secure Google' in het
zoekvenster rechts boven (klik het icoontje en alle geinstalleerde
zoekengines verschijnen).

De juiste werking kan worden getest na het selecteren door in het lege
zoekvenster te klikken. Het Google SSL Beta venster zal dan verschijnen.

Groet / Cees

Search more securely with encrypted Google web search
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/search-more-securely-with-encrypted.html
5/21/2010 12:30:00 PM
As people spend more time on the Internet, they want greater control
over who has access to their online communications. Many Internet
services use what are known as Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) connections to
encrypt information that travels between your computer and their
service. Usually recognized by a web address starting with “https” or a
browser lock icon, this technology is regularly used by online banking
sites and e-commerce websites. Other sites may also implement SSL in a
more limited fashion, for example, to help protect your passwords when
you enter your login information.

Years ago Google added SSL encryption to products ranging from Gmail to
Google Docs and others, and we continue to enable encryption on more
services. Like banking and e-commerce sites, Google’s encryption extends
beyond login passwords to the entire service. This session-wide
encryption is a significant privacy advantage over systems that only
encrypt login pages and credit card information. Early this year, we
took an important step forward by making SSL the default setting for all
Gmail users. And today we’re gradually rolling out a new choice to
search more securely at https://www.google.com.

When you search on https://www.google.com, an encrypted connection is
created between your browser and Google. This secured channel helps
protect your search terms and your search results pages from being
intercepted by a third party on your network. The service includes a
modified logo to help indicate that you’re searching using SSL and that
you may encounter a somewhat different Google search experience, but as
always, remember to check the start of the address bar for “https” and
your browser lock indicators:

Today’s release comes with a “beta” label for a few reasons. First, it
currently covers only the core Google web search product. To help avoid
misunderstanding, when you search using SSL, you won’t see links to
offerings like Image Search and Maps that, for the most part, don’t
support SSL at this time. Also, since SSL connections require additional
time to set up the encryption between your browser and the remote web
server, your experience with search over SSL might be slightly slower
than your regular Google search experience. What won’t change is that
you will still get the same great search results.

A few notes to remember: Google will still maintain search data to
improve your search quality and to provide better service. Searching
over SSL doesn’t reduce the data sent to Google — it only hides that
data from third parties who seek it. And clicking on any of the web
results, including Google universal search results for unsupported
services like Google Images, could take you out of SSL mode. Our hope is
that more websites and services will add support for SSL to help create
a better and more consistent experience for you.

We think users will appreciate this new option for searching. It’s a
helpful addition to users’ online privacy and security, and we’ll
continue to add encryption support for more search offerings. To learn
more about using the feature, refer to our help article on search over SSL.

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